Monoprinted Map Collage with Valerie S. Goodwin

5 Days Monday – Friday, July 28-August 1, 2025

The emphasis of this workshop is on experimentation. Using your own voice, you will make mini works of map art. This is the perfect opportunity to craft cartographic compositions and learn new techniques! You will make beautiful surfaces that will form canvasses for fiber art maps using a number of processes. This experience is designed to inspire you to explore and to play with new processes. You will experiment with mixed media mapping, mono-printing, and electronically cut lines & shapes. This is a non-technical workshop, where students will play with color, texture, surface, line, and shape.

Just come with a willingness to be inventive and play! Through a series of design prompts and instructions, generate our own maps based on real places, memories, celebration, imagination, or personal exploration. Although machine stitching is an option, hand stitching is a key part of the workshop.

To kickstart your creativity, bring the following:

• Color scheme ideas – from a magazine, a painting, or a photograph.
• A few images of simple maps whose lines and shapes appeal to you. Should be about 8.5” x 11”.
• Images that relate to a place you might want to map. Could be photographs of faces, buildings, or landscape materials.
• Examples of aerial photographs with interesting colors, textures, or marks & shapes on the land.

Skill level: Intermediate to advanced students

Materials fee: $40 – $50 per person for paints, tools, and other supplies. Exact amount will be set closer to class date.

All QBL workshops begin on Monday and end on Friday. Workshops are from 8:30-4pm daily. Students check in to their dorms and move into classrooms on the Sunday before the workshop begins. There is a welcome dinner with a lecture Sunday night.